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  1. Slick Vik
    There is a severe difference of opinion here. Some of us have a vision of what there could be without the pierce. Others can't imagine houston without the pierce because of fear of the unknown. Irontiger who for the most part I don't see eye to eye with on anything had one reasonable idea, shut it down 3-6 months and see what happens.
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    Ambiguous use? That's subjective
  3. Slick Vik
    San Francisco, Seoul, Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland haven't been losing population
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    Big difference between riding a train and driving. Also the one issue with galveston houston is where would the downtown station be? Hopefully once the bullet train station is decided it could pull into there. I never said it wouldn't work. Look at what Denver is doing with similar density.
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    Everyone in college station that commutes works in the woodlands, and Beaumont in Baytown?Also do you seriously consider 130 miles a feasible daily commute?
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    Not to mention Syracuse, New Orleans, New Haven, Detroit, Cleveland and other cities where freeway removal is being pondered. Cleveland has actually begun removal of portions. Also you forgot Milwaukee.
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    Traffic would ideally go to 610 east. People just passing through downtown to go north don't need to take 45. If you care about the future of the city and not the routing of an automobile the intelligent thing to do would remove the pierce and the traffic would adapt. Fear mongering is a Fox News tactic, when all else fails.
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    There are enough that commute from league city/Dickinson/clear lake that there is an island transit system that takes commuters in and out. And of course the metro park and ride system that takes people downtown. So presumably commuter rail would have sufficient ridership north and south in the mornings and the opposite in the evenings with limited trains on weekends for tourists to galveston.
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    I've gone under the shepherd underpass hundreds of times and never seen a single person trying to walk under it. The pierce does divide midtown and downtown and thus is unnecessary: 1+1 = 2. As for the childish name calling instead of letting the thread devolve I'll let you whoop your aggie pride.
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    Kicking the bucket on mass transit is an ignorant path and will just lead to higher costs down the line.Saying talking about the land value of pierce is rambling while talking about painting undersides of bridges as a solution to something is, ironic. Induced demand is simple. If people see something they use it. So take it away and they won't. The pierce is unnecessary, if it wasn't there people would adjust to 59 and hopefully 610. People that have no reason to cross downtown cause unnecessary congestion.
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    How many people commute from college station and Beaumont to houston as compared to people that commute into and out of galveston? That's not a comparable comparison at all.
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    It's under study. Beaumont and college station aren't 60 miles away from downtown, invalid comparisons. Also a lot of people from clear lake and south of that commute to galveston.
  13. Slick Vik
    Agreed Truth
  14. Slick Vik
    There's nothing stupid about that. There are cities everywhere with different ideas about how to develop than houston. Using inflammatory rhetoric instead of trying to understand the benefits is self defeating.
  15. Slick Vik
    Alternative 11 sounds the best out of the options but it's unfortunate that 59 has to be widened as a result. All a catch 22
  16. Slick Vik
    You're against rights for the disabled?
  17. Slick Vik
    True.
  18. Slick Vik
    This. Plus, saying people drive a lot when there are minimal viable alternatives is disingenuous.
  19. Slick Vik
    I've spent the last few weeks all over the west coast and Vancouver and have to say not having feeders is nice. No ugly retail all over the place.
  20. Slick Vik
    Memorial and allen parkway are redundant to an extent
  21. Slick Vik
    The problem with the park and ride is the HOV isn't guaranteed to have the speed it promises due to the fact it shares traffic with cars. 45 north in particular is slow every day. But I would like to see it expanded to weekends and more often in non peak times also. But there is a significant portion of the population that has rail bias and that's always going to be there.
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    But not having alternatives only makes the situation worse. I don't think widening then stacking freeways while ignoring alternatives is a viable long term solution. If metro didn't go ahead with the proposal at least one line would've been built anyway
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    I didn't drop insults I said the majority of UH students commute and generally they can't get in or perhaps can't afford a better school. That being said I'm happy it's improving good for it.
  24. Slick Vik
    Article about 290, westpark, and 90 commuter trains being heavily studied in chronicle today. http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/transportation/article/Officials-narrowing-options-for-commuter-rail-5631622.php
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    It's UH people that always have the inferiority complex. I don't even hear UT or Rice or A&M people talk about UH. Nothing wrong with UH I'm happy it's improving but it's not really in the same league as a university overall.
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